All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
I think what makes you feel so connected with certain writers isn't a matter of autobiographical detail, but that the emotions are real. The way some writers are able to channel themselves through the form.
[Oscar Wilde's Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that's why I guess it's semi-autobiographical.
Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.
Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.
The First Man is completely autobiographical. The mother [Albert Camus] describes is the woman I knew, and she was exactly as he describes her. And this teacher really existed.
Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.
People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination
The fiction is not autobiographical. Maybe to some extent it is, of course.
The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.
The stuff I write isn't strictly autobiographical, but it's personal, if that makes any sense. It draws all these little incidents and people out of my life and then contorts them.
All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction.
I always sing them as though they are autobiographical, even if they're not, and most of my songs do come from something about me.
The subject matter is autobiographical, it's all to do with hope and memory and sensuality and involvement, really.
Writing lyrics with your wife does lead to talking about yourselves a lot. But this is not an autobiographical account of my personal marriage. It's almost about the marriage of the band.
Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have to dissolve the self into these larger universal truths, and explore these deeper mysteries. If it’s purely autobiographical and ego-driven, it’s going to fail.
All art is autobiographical.
The first book I ever wrote was in fourth grade and it was called 'Billy's Booger. ' It was an autobiographical piece about a kid who was really bad at math.
In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man. The purpose of it, of course, was to write about myself. That character was always the least fully realized. Eighteen years later, you realize, That's what he was about.